A Measure of Resilience with Contextual Sensitivity—The CYRM-28: Exploring the Tension Between Homogeneity and Heterogeneity in Resilience Theory and Research

Abstract

In this chapter, we build on three propositions regarding the concept of resilience. First, we understand resilience to refer to coping under stress, and therefore a description of populations who do well when facing adversity. Second, because most of what we know about resilience (positive coping under stress) is almost entirely based on studies and clinical experience with populations in what Kagitcibasi (2007) has referred to as the "Minority World," the concept of resilience requires further study across contexts and cultures. Third, because the study of resilience necessarily requires the description and subsequent quantification of unnamed, or indigenous, processes, the development of a measure of resilience requires both a review of the existing literature and qualitative inquiry that documents the lives of those who are not well-represented in that literature. With these three propositions before us, the Resilience Research Centre set out to develop a measure of resilience that addressed all three. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2015 APA, all rights reserved). (chapter)